Hotmail on the Taskbar
Hotmail just got even better when run on IE9. Today,
Hotmail added email notifications to its pinned site that displays the number
of new messages directly in the taskbar. It’s an easy way to keep an eye
on new updates with a glance. Pin Hotmail to your taskbar to start seeing this in
action!
Hotmail also gives you quick access to mail tasks from the jumplist. Right-click
on the Hotmail icon to jump to a task like send mail:
Now when you pin Hotmail to the taskbar, you can use it like a native desktop application
on Windows 7. With
pinned sites, developers can add capabilities like notifications, jumplists
and thumbnail toolbars to your Web sites too. See these MSDN articles and Test Drive
demo for details:
Check out many more useful (and addictive) pinned site experiences on
beautyoftheweb.com and on the Internet Explorer
Gallery.
If you’re running Windows 7 but not yet running IE9,
upgrade now to get the most from your browsing experience.
Comments
Anonymous
March 31, 2011
I hope the guys at Hotmail (wait, what I thought that was Hotmail now? Guess I have to MSN search for news on this return to the old names) fixed at this occasion also the incompatibilities with Firefox 4 AFAIK stemming from some brain-dead UA sniffing code.Anonymous
March 31, 2011
Here's the first cool thing for windows I wish my mac had since... uhm... uh... long long time.Anonymous
March 31, 2011
What's a 'hotmail'?Anonymous
March 31, 2011
See? I already forgot the former new name. Hum… let me think… I just remember it had something to do with a trademark formerly owned by Netscape…Anonymous
March 31, 2011
wer is mine i didnt get 1 :((((((( mmmmmAnonymous
March 31, 2011
I use hotmail and have tried this but it doesn't work. I have Jump Lists but don't have the notifications. I think it may be due to the fact my hotmail domain is live.ie (The Irish Regional Hotmail). Can I get some clarification on this please?Anonymous
March 31, 2011
Can you please make an application on iPod touch where you can control a computer or something. That would definitely be 5 star Anonymous
March 31, 2011
like this site..joebx..Anonymous
March 31, 2011
Please use "Live Mail" now, it sounds better. "Hotmail" is a little...too ga-- err, gender sounding. hehAnonymous
March 31, 2011
hotmail... seriously? do you have any other 1990's-era cool stuff bloating up IE?Anonymous
March 31, 2011
I tried it and it doesn't seem to work. Maybe the changes to Hotmail code haven't propagated to all servers or something? Or is it a regional thing and you are trying it out only for US customers?Anonymous
March 31, 2011
@Breen I have been using Hotmail with FF4 and I didn't seem to notice any problems or difference to using it with other browsers. What are those "incompatibilities"?Anonymous
March 31, 2011
@Senthil Kumar: inter alia bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi Apparently fixed nowAnonymous
March 31, 2011
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March 31, 2011
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March 31, 2011
Ooooh, I get it. April Fool's! He he, hotmail. Good one, .. good one. A.Anonymous
March 31, 2011
@Aundro: Unfortunately for you this was already posted yesterday, on March 31.Anonymous
April 01, 2011
Look here IE team how the Windows 8 team seems to have finally seen sense, learnt from their mistakes and made the status bar more USEFUL instead of dumbing it down without giving any user preference: www.neowin.net/.../003_med.png. If you are listening for feedback, please restore all the GUI elements you removed in some later version of IE and make them off by default, don't remove them.Anonymous
April 01, 2011
when will IE support this new standard? http://pastebin.com/ijjRKvUBAnonymous
April 01, 2011
@p5p: roflmao... that's a great one!Anonymous
April 01, 2011
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April 01, 2011
A fantastic feature! Sadly, it's useless to me since IE disables all add-ons when I pin Hotmail to the taskbar.Anonymous
April 01, 2011
like Vegas said, add-ons like LastPass don't work in pinned sites. This would be very helpful to consider "some" kinds of add-ons as acceptable for use in pinned sites, like password managers.Anonymous
April 02, 2011
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April 02, 2011
I don't use hotmail and certainly wouldn't if I was to use it as my personal email address on a resume or for anything professional - but I digress. I do use GMail and I'm trying to think if this hotlist would be of any real world use and I can't for the life of me think of a single use case where I would want to go to the task mar to start a new action OF ANY KIND?!?!?! Even in Outlook (forced by work) I wouldn't use this or Thunderbird (best darn email client for Windows) I don't want to use the taskbar icon to start actions... I've only ever wanted to right click to Close, Move, or Resize/Minimize an application... and Windows 7 royally pooched that one too - now I have to press the SHIFT key to get the menu I actually want - (aka Total Usability Fail) I really wish the IE team had taken all the time wasted doing this stupid site pinning stuff and fixed up some of those thousands and thousands of legacy bugs that IE has - not only would developers be happier about it, users would be too. Oh well, we can only hope in IE10 when pinned sites gets pulled back out that the time saved can be used to fix the real bugs.Anonymous
April 02, 2011
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April 04, 2011
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April 07, 2011
wow... total crickets.... a very quiet blog post. All I can say is this "feature" is obviously D.O.A. I can't say I'm surprised it seems like an absolute waste of time and energy to create a proprietary menu on a part of the screen that no user will even think of using to navigate their app. Let me guess... was this a "Required Feature" pushed down from Marketing? Dave should have provided a filter for this before it got to the developers so that no time was wasted on this vs. implementing CSS text-shadows or fixing the broken IE DOM. Project Management Fail.Anonymous
April 07, 2011
Although a nice feature, I dint really see its main purpose. Using hotmail inside your normal web browser has never been an inconvenience...Anonymous
April 10, 2011
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April 11, 2011
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